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Maintaining Your Hard Disks, Password Protection

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In Business with the HP Brio PC Protecting Your Data To learn about computer viruses, and how to erase them, see the Protect Your Data window and Task Helper. Maintaining Your Hard Disk(s) Things generally tend to work better and last longer when properly cared for. This is equally true for your computer's hard disk(s). Your HP Brio PC will perform better if you maintain its hard disk(s) and the files stored on them. Ideally, this maintenance work should be carried out on a regular basis. • Scan your hard disk for errors - your HP Brio PC comes with a fully featured disk analysis and repair tool that will help you check the integrity of disks, check folders and file system for damage, and repair both disks and file system, if necessary. • Optimize your hard disk's performance - as programs are continually reading or writing to the hard disk, fragmentation eventually occurs, meaning that files are stored in random parts of the hard disk. Although fragmentation does not have any effect on the files themselves, the computer does take longer to access them. When you optimize the hard disk, you defragment data, thereby consolidating files and improving your hard disk's access time. To learn about maintaining hard disks, and how to optimize or scan a disk, see Maintain Hard Disk(s) in the Protect Your Data window. Password Protection Why not protect your HP Brio PC by setting a password on your screensaver. So, even when you leave your HP Brio PC unattended, you are sure that your work is secure. 28

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In Business with the HP Brio PC
Protecting Your Data
To learn about computer viruses, and how to erase them, see the
Protect Your
Data
window and
Task Helper
.
Maintaining Your Hard Disk(s)
Things generally tend to work better and last longer when properly cared for.
This is equally true for your computer’s hard disk(s).
Your HP Brio PC will perform better if you maintain its hard disk(s) and the
files stored on them. Ideally, this maintenance work should be carried out on a
regular basis.
•
Scan your hard disk for errors — your HP Brio PC comes with a fully featured
disk analysis and repair tool that will help you check the integrity of disks,
check folders and file system for damage, and repair both disks and file
system, if necessary.
•
Optimize your hard disk’s performance — as programs are continually
reading or writing to the hard disk, fragmentation eventually occurs, meaning
that files are stored in random parts of the hard disk. Although fragmentation
does not have any effect on the files themselves, the computer does take
longer to access them. When you optimize the hard disk, you defragment
data, thereby consolidating files and improving your hard disk’s access time.
To learn about maintaining hard disks, and how to optimize or scan a disk, see
Maintain Hard Disk(s)
in the Protect Your Data window.
Password Protection
Why not protect your HP Brio PC by setting a password on your screensaver.
So, even when you leave your HP Brio PC unattended, you are sure that your
work is secure.